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noun

a small, roundish mark made with or as if with a pen.

a minute or small spot on a surface; speck: There were dots of soot on the window sill.

anything relatively small or specklike.

a small specimen, section, amount, or portion: a dot of butter.

a period, especially as used when pronouncing an Internet address.

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Music.

a point placed after a note or rest, to indicate that the duration of the note or rest is to be increased one half. A double dot further increases the duration by one half the value of the single dot.

a point placed under or over a note to indicate that it is to be played staccato.

Telegraphy. a signal of shorter duration than a dash, used in groups along with groups of dashes and spaces to represent letters, as in Morse code.

Printing. an individual element in a halftone reproduction.

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verb (used with object)

to mark with or as if with a dot or dots.

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to stud or diversify with or as if with dots: Trees dot the landscape.

11.

to form or cover with dots: He dotted a line across the page.

12.

Cookery. to sprinkle with dabs of butter, margarine, or the like: Dot the filling with butter.

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tone lowered a half step in pitch

chord of three tones, one consisting of a given tone with its major or minor third augmented

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verb (used without object)

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to make a dot or dots.

Idioms

14.

dot one's i's and cross one's t's, to be meticulous or precise, even to the smallest detail.

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on the dot, Informal. precisely; exactly at the time specified: The guests arrived at eight o'clock on the dot.

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the year dot, British Informal. very long ago.

Origin:
before 1000; perhaps to be identified with Old English dott head of a boil, though not attested in Middle English; compare dottle, dit, derivative of Old English dyttan to stop up (probably derivative of dott); cognate with Old High German tutta nipple

Related forms

dot·like, adjective

dot·ter, noun

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noun Civil Law.

dowry (def. 1).

Origin:
1850–55; < French < Latin dōtem, accusative of dōs dowry, akin to dāre to give

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do·tal

[doht-l] , adjective

noun

a female given name, form of Dorothea and Dorothy.

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dot¹ (dɒt)

—n
1.	a small round mark made with or as with a pen, etc; spot; speck; point
2.	anything resembling a dot; a small amount: a dot of paint
3.	the mark (˙) that appears above the main stem of the letters i, j
4.	music
	a. the symbol (·) placed after a note or rest to increase its time value by half
	b. this symbol written above or below a note indicating that it must be played or sung staccato
5.	maths, logic
	a. the symbol (.) indicating multiplication or logical conjunction
	b. a decimal point
6.	Compare dit the symbol (·) used, in combination with the symbol for dash (–), in the written representation of Morse and other telegraphic codes
7.	informal the year dot as long ago as can be remembered
8.	on the dot at exactly the arranged time

—vb , dots, dotting, dotted
9.	(tr) to mark or form with a dot: to dot a letter; a dotted crotchet
10.	(tr) to scatter or intersperse (with dots or something resembling dots): bushes dotting the plain
11.	(intr) to make a dot or dots
12.	dot one's i's and cross one's t's to pay meticulous attention to detail

[Old English dott head of a boil; related to Old High German tutta nipple, Norwegian dott, Dutch dott lump]

'dotter¹

—n

dot² (dɒt)

—n
	civil law a woman's dowry

[C19: from French, from Latin dōs; related to dōtāre to endow, dāre to give]

dotal²

—*adj*

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Word Origin & History

dot

O.E. dott "speck, head of a boil," perhaps related to tit "nipple." Known from a single source c.1000; the word reappeared with modern meaning "mark" c.1530; not common until 18c. Morse telegraph sense is from 1838. On the dot "punctual" is 1909, in reference to a clock dial face. Dot-matrix first attested

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Medical Dictionary

dot ¹ (dŏt)
n.
A tiny round mark made by or as if by a pointed instrument; a spot.

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Science Dictionary

dot (dŏt) Pronunciation Key

A symbol (·) indicating multiplication, as in 2 · 4 = 8. It is used to indicate the dot product of vectors, for example A · B.
A period, as used as in URLs and e-mail addresses, to separate strings of words, as in www.hmco.com.